Who has eaten the oldest MRE (or MCI !)

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Post by kman » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:29 am

Yum - green cheese spread! Too bad you couldn't have taken some pictures of that. :-)

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Post by knighthawks97 » Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:05 pm

kman wrote:Yum - green cheese spread! Too bad you couldn't have taken some pictures of that. :-)
ok kman, I got it out of the trash (no prob since it was on top). I smelled it and threw it right away after initially opening it. I took this shot and it seems the green was all I saw at first, now there's shades of brown mixed in there also.

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Post by knighthawks97 » Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:08 pm

on second thought, the smell tells me that it may serve as good catfishing bait!

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Post by kman » Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:39 pm

Oh man...I'm kind of sorry I asked for pictures now. :-)

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1995 mre

Post by norge » Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:38 pm

just ate a 1995 mre (insp date98)
grilled chicken with potatoes au gratin and a pound cake
al of it was perfect taste and color :D
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Post by mreheater72 » Mon May 21, 2007 11:40 am

Hi guys,

yesterday I opened a „Chocolate Nut Cake“ with the date packed 4230 (17.08.1984)!
It was all ok, appearance, smell and taste! Yummy! :D

Here are some photos:

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Best wishes mreheater72

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Post by Stef » Mon May 21, 2007 12:13 pm

1984???? ...are you sure that's not 1994 ...or 2004? :o
Waow, I was still dressed in olive drab and eating "C" ans "T" rats :lol:
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Post by housil » Mon May 21, 2007 1:34 pm

mreheater72 wrote:Hi guys,

yesterday I opened a „Chocolate Nut Cake“ with the date packed 4230 (17.08.1984)!
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It was all ok, appearance, smell and taste! Yummy! :D
"IGOR, bring me the cake."

"OK, Dr. Frankenstein...."

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Post by kman » Mon May 21, 2007 2:48 pm

Stef, based on the color of that outer box, that's definitely not from 1994 or 2004 - so it looks like it's 1984.

Wow, mreheater - nice job, brave man! Thanks for sharing the experience with pictures. One of these days, we'll have scratch-and-sniff on web browsers and then this taste-testing will go to a whole new level. :-)

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Post by mreheater72 » Thu May 24, 2007 10:23 am

kman wrote:Stef, based on the color of that outer box, that's definitely not from 1994 or 2004 - so it looks like it's 1984.

Wow, mreheater - nice job, brave man! Thanks for sharing the experience with pictures. One of these days, we'll have scratch-and-sniff on web browsers and then this taste-testing will go to a whole new level. :-)
I´m really sure the cake is from 1984, because 1992 was the last year "nut cakes" appear in MREs :cry: .

Kman, I hope the scratch-and-sniff on web browsers will come soon :D!

So long mreheater72

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